APPENDIX II 



ON UNKNOWN SHORES; THE TRAVERSE OF GRANT AND 



ELLESMERE LANDS 



W. ELMER EKBLAW 



Early in the fall of 1914, when MacMillan outlined 

 the tentative plans for the work of our party for the 

 season of 1915, he designated as the share for Tank and 

 me the exploration of EUesmere and Grant lands along 

 the circuitous route from Etah to Cape Sabine; across 

 EUesmere Land from Beitstad Fjord to Bay Fjord; 

 down Bay Fjord and Eureka Sound to the mouth of 

 Greely Fjord; up Greely Fjord (to include the ex- 

 ploration of all its tributary fjords) ; across Grant Land 

 by way of Lake Hazen to Lady Franklin Bay; and thence 

 home to Etah along the west coast of Greenland. 



The Greely Fjord — Lake Hazen portion of the route — 

 constituted a most promising field for exploration and 

 pioneer scientific investigation, a field of which long 

 stretches had never been explored. The successful 

 completion of this work would connect the exploration 

 accomplished by Lockwood and Brainard of the Greely 

 party, working from Lady Franklin Bay, with that done 

 by Fosheim and Raanes of the Sverdrup expedition, 

 working from Jones Sound, and leave unexplored, of all 



